SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced in designing solutions, implementations, deployments, and migrations
• Designed Office365 migration strategy for 24,000+ mailboxes at federal agency
• Designed Office365 Migration Strategy for 34,000+ mailboxes for a major Healthcare organization
• Experienced in Tennant to Tennant migration using BitTitan and Quest OnDemand Migrations tools
• Experience in migrating from on premise Exchange to Exchange Online (Office365)
• Extensive experience administrating, configuring Active Directory 2000\2003\2008, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000\2003\2007\2010\2013\2016
• Extensive experience with Email migration, from Google Mail to Exchange online, using BitTitan
• Extensive experience with migration between Office365 tenants, using Quest OnDemand Tool
• Extensive experience with migration of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 (multi sites DAG), MessageOne, EAS (Autonomy/Zantaz), XOsoft for Exchange 2003/2007 replication
• Experience maintaining Blackberry Enterprise servers for large - scale environments
• Planned and implemented Blackberry V.10 for 6,000 users
• Experience with building, maintaining and troubleshooting HP servers, Blade servers, Dell servers
• Experience configuring and deploying virtual environment for Exchange farm using VMWare 4.x and 5.x
• Consistently recognized by management for superior performance in resolving engineering design and functionality issues and problem-solving ability
• Proven ability to communicate with technical and non-technical users
• Demonstrated skill in meeting deadlines within demanding environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Office365 Principal Architect

Confidential, Virginia Beach

Responsibilities:

• Designed and migrated 34,000+ mailboxes to Office365 at Confidential
• Designed documentation for all phases of migration, including standard operating procedures
• Designed and lead deployment of Exchange 2016 for use of hybrid configuration, including email routing strategy
• Designed and Lead deployment of Azure Privilege Identity Management (PIM)
• Architected and lead deployment strategy for AzureAD connect, AD replication, authentication methodology
• Worked with IT Security team to review and design Office365’s compliance policies
• Designed and deployed Exchange 2016 servers used for hybrid configuration for Office365 (Exchange Online)
• Trained Exchange administrators for Exchange online administration and troubleshooting
• Interfaced with Confidential leadership during Office365 migration

Office365 Architect Consultant

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Designed, deployed, and migrated email for various clients, including insurance companies, non-profits, embassy’s and government
• Created documentation for all phases of migration, including standard operating procedures, responded to requests for proposals
• Designed and deployed Exchange 2013/2016 servers used for hybrid configuration for Office365
• Assist clients with maximization of Cloud services, Skype for business online, One-Drive, Microsoft Azure and on premise related technologies including AzureADConnect and Azure AD with ADFS SSO
• Trained clients support staff in Cloud administration and best practices

Office365 Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Designed and migrated 24,000 mailboxes to Office365 at Department of Transportation
• Designed documentation for all phases of migration, including standard operating procedures
• Designed and deployed Exchange 2013 servers used for hybrid configuration for Office365
• Managed existing DoT Exchange infrastructure, designed proposed enhancements for hybrid configuration
• Trained Exchange administrators in cloud administration
• Interfaced with Federal DoT leadership during Office365 migration

Sr. Enterprise Messaging Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Deploying Lync 00+ users)
• Designed, deployed, and migrated Exchange (7, 000+ users)
• Designed Exchange 2010 High Availability Solution (CAS Array, DAG, hardware load balancer, TMG)
• Developed and documented Exchange 2010 datacenter failover strategy to enable fifteen minute recovery
• Configured hybrid Exchange environment for Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Exchange online (Office365)
• Migrated two thousand users to Blackberry 10
• Served as Technical Lead for critical email escalation issues and Blackberry issues

Sr. Messaging Engineer

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Manage Exchange 2010 and Blackberry Enterprise servers in 5000+ user environment for biotechnology company
• Maintain messaging systems to ensure maximum operational readiness; day-to-day operations support
• Third-level support for escalation of trouble tickets

Sr. Network Engineer and Email Messaging Specialist

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Manage enterprise messaging system for international law firm of 6000 users
• Planned and migrated users from Exchange 5.5 to 2000 and from Exchange
• Implemented Microsoft ISA firewall to complement remote access for email for entire enterprise, maintain day-to-day operation of firewall
• Maintain Exchange systems for optimal performance
• Build and deploy Exchange servers using HP Blade technology
• Third-level support for Outlook issues including archival issues (EAS)
• Assisted network team with implementation of VMWare environment

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administered Windows enterprise servers for 600+ user environment composed of multiple Windows NT Domain 2000 and 2003, MS Exchange 2000 and 2003, and Lotus Notes 4.x
• Administered all Cisco routers/switches/firewalls for firm’s LAN/WAN
• Lead engineer for Exchange migrations (Lotus Notes to 2000 and Exchange )
• Lead engineer for upgrading Active Directory from
• Lead engineer for deployment of disaster recovery site in Dayton, Ohio
• Deployed, maintained and troubleshot Blackberry enterprise servers
• Deployed and maintained Exchange EAS archiving solution
• Maintain day-to-day operation of all enterprise systems
• Configured and maintained server services (Active Directory, DHCP services, WINS server, print server)

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administered Windows enterprise server environment for telecom company, composed of multiple Windows NT Domain 2000 and MS Exchange 2000 servers
• Administered all Cisco routers/switches/firewalls for company’s LAN/WAN
• Deployed, maintained and troubleshot Blackberry enterprise servers
• Configured and maintained server services (Active Directory, DHCP services, WINS server, print server)
• Maintain day-to-day operation of all enterprise systems

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administered Windows enterprise servers for 1500+ user environment for internet company, composed of multiple Windows NT Domain 4.0 and MS Exchange 5.5 servers
• Administered all Cisco routers/switches/firewalls for company’s LAN/WAN
• Deployed, maintained and troubleshot Blackberry enterprise servers
• Configured and maintained server services (Active Directory, DHCP services, WINS server, print server)
• Maintain day-to-day operation of all enterprise systems

Sr. Lotus Notes/Windows NT Administrator

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and administered 1000+ user/node Lotus Notes/Windows NT network in a multiple Windows/NT Domain environment for major satellite manufacturer
• Managed and administered day-to-day operations of Lotus Notes servers
• Configured and maintained server services (DHCP services, WINS server, print server)